This Technology located in the following Hospitals:
- Mouwasat Hospital Khobar
Equipped with modern equipment, including the Positron Emission Tomography (PET), the Nuclear Center of Mouwasat Hospital at Al-Khobar is the first center in a private hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the second private hospital in the Middle East holding the American College of Radiology (ACR) accreditation certificate in nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography and the accreditation certificate in early detection of the tumors and monitoring cancer treatment, where early detection of cancer helps in determining the incidence of cancer and ensuring the cancer treatment effectiveness and post-treatment monitoring to ensure that tumors will not come back.
PET is used to:
- Diagnose breast tumors.
- Diagnose lung tumors.
- Diagnose pancreatic tumors.
- Diagnose lymphoma tumors.
- Diagnose skin tumors.
- Diagnose esophageal tumors.
- Diagnose head and neck tumors.
- Diagnose of cervix tumors.
- Diagnose of colon tumors.
- Diagnose of rectal tumors.
PET features include:
- High quality and modern equipment.
- It operates in a hybrid and modern (nuclear imaging + x-ray imaging).
- It minimizes exposure to radiation during imaging.
- It allows imaging within a short period of time.
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